LINGUIST List 31.2686
Sun Aug 30 2020
FYI: Call for Participation: ALTA 2020 Shared Task
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-Aug-2020
From: Diego Molla <diego.molla-aliod
mq.edu.au>
Subject: Call for Participation: ALTA 2020 Shared Task
E-mail this message to a friend Call for Participation
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2020 The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) is organising a programming competition for university undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Following on the series of shared tasks by ALTA since 2010, all participants compete to solve the same problem. The problem highlights an active area of research and programming in the area of language technology.
This year's shared task is about assessing human behaviour from textual data.
The tentative key dates are:
Right Now - Registration and release of training and development data
30 Oct 2020 - Deadline of submission of runs
3 Nov 2020 - Notification of results
20 Nov 2020 - Deadline of submission of system description
13-15 Jan 2021 - Presentation of results at ALTA workshop
Details of the task and registration are available at the competition website (
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2020).
Good luck!
Diego
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Subject Language(s):
English (eng)
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